Folioz
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Assessment
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Basic Profile Filling in Folioz
A video tutorial on how to construct basic elements of a profile page on Folioz.
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Changing Username and Password in Folioz
A video tutorial on changing username and password on Folioz.
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Collections in Folioz
A video tutorial of how to create collections on Folioz.
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Copying Pages for Different Purposes in Folioz
A video tutorial on copying pages for different purposes_privacy on Folioz.
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Creating a Resume
A video tutorial on creating a resume on Folioz. -
Creating a Resume in Folioz
A video tutorial on creating a resume on Folioz.
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Creating Folders & Uploading Files in Folioz
A video tutorial on how to create a folder and upload files on Folioz.
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Creating Pages in Folioz
A video tutorial on how to create new pages on Folioz.
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Customizing Columns & Rows in Folioz
A video tutorial on customizing columns and rows on Folioz.
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Embedding Prezi & Slideshare in Folioz
A video tutorial on embedding prezi and slideshare on Folioz.
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Folioz
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Folioz
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Groups
Groups in Folioz
Overview
Groups can be used for collaboration among users as they offer the possibilities to:
- discuss topics in forums
- create and edit pages and collections together
- share files
- share pages
- submit pages for assessment / feedback
You can create different groups depending on your role.
All users
- Open membership: Any user of the site can become a member simply by visiting your group page and clicking the Join button.
- Request membership: Any user can request to join your group. However, as owner you can choose to accept or decline this request. The requesting member will be notified of your decision automatically.
In addition, staff and administrators can create groups with controlled membership:
- You can add users directly to your group.
- The members cannot leave this group.
- You can assign tutors to the group. They can give feedback on submitted pages, but not administer group members.
- Group members can submit portfolio pages or collections for feedback / assessment. These pages are locked until released by a group administrator or tutor.
Create a group as a user
If you are allowed to create a group, you see the Create group button on the My groups overview page.
Create a group as a user
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Group name: Provide a name for your group. This field is mandatory.
The group name that you choose does not have to be unique. Other groups can have the same name. In order to distinguish them more easily, you can add a group description.
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Group description: Briefly describe what your group is about.
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Group homepage URL: You can choose what human-readable URL your group should have. You see this field only once you have created your group.
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Open: Check this box if you want to create an open membership group. This allows users to join the group without approval from group administrators.
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Request: Check this box if you wish to create a request membership group. Users will have to send a membership request that requires group administrator approval. Open and request membership groups are mutually exclusive.
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Friend invitations: Check this box if you want to allow group members to invite friends to join the group. Regardless of this setting, group administrators can always send invitations to anyone. If the friends accept, they will be added automatically to the group.
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Recommendations: Check this box if you want to allow members to send a recommendation for joining this group to their friends from a button on the group homepage. If a request membership group has been recommended and the friends are interested in it, they would still need the approval of the group administrator to join. Friend invitations and recommendations are mutually exclusive options.
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Create and edit pages: Decide who shall be able to create and edit pages in the group:
- All group members
- Everyone except ordinary members, i.e. group administrators and tutors depending on the group type
- Group administrators only
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Publicly viewable group: Choose this option if anybody shall have access to this group. You only see this setting if the site administrator allowed you to have it. Anybody online can see the group homepage and the discussion forum(s). Depending on the membership visibility, they may also see group members. Only members of the groups can see the group’s pages, unless they have been made public, and the files area.
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Participation report: Tick this checkbox if you as group administrator want to view a report displaying all group pages and those that have been shared with the group and see who commented on them.
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Start date: As group administrator you can decide when regular group members shall be able to create and edit content, forum discussions, pages and collections in the group. Tick the checkbox Set date to enter a date and time from when editing is allowed. Group administrators can always edit content in a group.
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End date: You can allow the editing of group content for regular members up to a certain time. After that they will only be able to view forum discussions, pages, collections and files, but not edit them. Tick the checkbox Set date to enter a date and time until when editing is allowed. Group administrators can always edit content in a group.
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Group category: Choose a category if you want to associate your group to one, allowing you to filter groups on the My groups and Find groups page more easily.
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Shared page notification: Select from the drop-down menu who shall be notified when new group pages are created and when group members share their pages with the group. The options in the drop-down menu are:
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All group members
You may not want to use this option in very large groups where lots of pages are shared but members do not have to be notified.
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Everyone except ordinary members, i.e. group administrators and tutors depending on the group type
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Group administrators only
The page owner who shares their page with the group does not receive a notification.
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Feedback notifications: Select from the drop-down menu who shall be notified when feedback is placed on a page or artefacts.
- All group members
- Everyone except ordinary members, i.e. group administrators and tutors depending on the group type
- Group administrators only
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Click the Save group button to finish creating your group, or click the Cancel button to abort the group creation process.
Create group as staff or institution admin
In addition to the group settings that a regular user has, institution staff and administrators have a few more options.
Additional options for staff and institution administrators
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Controlled: Create a controlled group if you wish to add users who cannot leave the group. This is a useful setting for course groups where you do not want members to leave.
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Roles: Choose whether you have only members and administrators or also tutors. The latter can provide feedback and release pages when page submissions are allowed, but they cannot change group settings.
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Allow submissions: Use this option to allow group members to submit pages or collections for feedback / assessment. These pages and collections as well as a number of content items in them are locked until released by a group administrator or tutor.
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Allow archiving of submissions: Use this option when you want to archive pages or collections that have been submitted to this group. The archive will be made on the server.
This is an experimental feature.
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Hide group: Use this option to not list this group on the Find groups page.
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Hide membership: Use this option to hide the group’s membership listing from non-members.
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Hide membership from members: Use this option to hide the group’s membership listing from members as well. Only group administrators can see the members listed. Administrators are still shown on the group homepage.
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Mahara Administration Explained
This is a quick overview of e-portfolio at Burnside High School
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Open Badges in Mahara and Moodle - Kristina Hoeppner
iMoot 2014 session recording.
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Peer Feedback in Folioz
A video tutorial on giving peer feedback on Folioz.
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Photo Gallery-Slideshow in Folioz
A video tutorial on creating photo gallery slideshows on Folioz.
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Profile
Your Profile
Your Profile area stores your contact and personal information. Each of the profile fields can be considered separate artefacts which you can add independently to your profile page or any portfolio page. Thus, you can reveal as little or as much information about yourself to others as you wish.
About me
Content → Profile → About me
You must provide a first and last name. All other information is optional. You name is visible to other Folioz users. You may choose to have a Display name. You can change the information here at any time unless an administrator locked certain fields.
Profile: About me
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The link Profile takes you directly to the edit screen of your profile page where you can arrange the information you wish to display on this page.
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First name: Your real given name
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Last name: You real last name
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Student ID: Fill it in if it is required
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Display name: The name by which you want to be known around Folioz. If you have a display name, your real name will not be visible to regular Folioz users. Only administrators can see your real name and your username at all times.
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Introduction: You can write about yourself. This text is placed onto your profile page automatically unless you take the introduction out of your profile page.
If you log in via Coursez and your user information is updated upon each login, your introduction will be overwritten by what you have in your Coursez profile description.
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Click the Save profile button to save your changes.
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Content → Profile → Contact information
General information
You may wish to provide some of your contact information for later use in a page. All details you fill in here are only visible to other users when you put them into a page. Until then only you can see them.
You are not required to provide any of the information asked for on this screen (except for one email address). Do not enter any private information in here that you do not want people to know. When choosing the Profile information block for any of your pages, you can decide which information to show on the particular page for which you choose the block.
However, be very vigilant with your private information. Think about it like providing information on a business card. How much or how little would you want to display there? Do you need to give out your home phone number and postal address? If not, leave them out.
Profile: Contact information
- Email address: You must have at least one email address in the system. Your primary email address, i.e. the first one shown, is the one that is used for any notification from Folioz. You can choose to display your secondary email addresses on specific pages.
- Official website address: If you have a business and want to put the URL to its website into your portfolio, you can enter it here.
- Personal website address: If you have a website for yourself, you can enter its URL in here and include it easily into your pages.
- Blog address: If you have a blog, copy its URL in here so you can use display it in your pages easily.
- Postal address: Enter your postal address in here if you wish.
- Town: Enter the town you live in / work at here. It should match your postal address.
- City / Region: If you have a further distinguisher to where you live, enter it here.
- Country: Choose the country you live in from the drop-down menu.
- Home phone: Enter your home phone number here.
- Business phone: Enter your business phone number here if you wish.
- Mobile phone: You can also provide your mobile phone number.
- Fax number: If you have a fax number where people can send you documents, enter it here.
- Click the Save profile button to save your changes.
Add and delete email addresses
The email address with which you registered on Folioz is displayed. You can add other email addresses to your profile so that you can use them later on.
Profile: Add or delete an email address
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On Content → Profile → Contact information click the button Add email address. A text field is being displayed.
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Enter your email address into the text field. Make sure you do not have any spelling mistakes in it.
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Click the Add button.
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Click the Save profile button at the bottom of the page. Only then is the authorization email sent to this email address to verify that it can be added. Follow the instructions in that email to continue.
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Until you verify your email address, it is displayed, but cannot be used. You can delete it at any time by clicking the Delete button
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Once you verified your email address, it is added as secondary address.
If you mark one of your secondary email addresses with the radio button and click the Save profile button, this address becomes your primary email address and the one to which all notifications are sent.
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Click the Delete button
to delete an email address that is not your primary one.
Content → Profile → Social media
If you use social media, you can enter your usernames / profile URLs here so you can use them in your portfolio later easily.
This tab was called Messaging until Folioz 1.9 and was limited to instant messaging services. In Folioz 1.10 it was changed to provide for more flexibility.
View your list of social media accounts
Profile: Social media
- The icon of the social media service is displayed if Folioz knows it.
- Social network: The name of the social network is displayed for which you provide a link to your profile.
- Your URL or username: Display your username for the social network or URL depending on what is asked for when you select the network. The username or URL is linked so you can click on it and verify it.
- Click the Edit button
if you want to make changes to a certain social network. - Click the Delete button if you want to remove a certain social network from the list.
- Click the New social media account button if you want to add another account.
Add a social media account
Profile: Add a social network
- Click the New social media account button if you want to add another account.
- Social network: Choose the social network from the drop-down menu for which you want to add a profile. If your social network is not displayed, choose the option “Other”.
- If you chose “Other” as your social network, enter the name of the site in this field.
- Your URL or username: Enter your username or the URL to your profile into this field. If you chose “Other”, you need to enter the URL so that it can be linked properly to your profile. Also enter the URL if you want to link to your Facebook or Tumblr account.
- Click the Save button to add your social network profile to your list of profiles or click the Cancel button to abort your changes.
Delete a social media account
Profile: Add a social network
- Click the Delete button next to the social media account that you want to remove from your profile.
- On the next page, click the Delete a social media account button.
You do not delete your social media account itself. You only delete the reference to it in your Folioz profile. As long as you have the actual social media account, you can always add it back.
General
Content → Profile → General
This tab is primarily for adult users who wish to use their portfolio in an employment context.
- Occupation: Enter your job title if you wish.
- Industry: Enter the industry in which you work.
- Click the Save profile button to save your changes.
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Resizing Images with Picasa for Folioz
A video tutorial on resizing images with Picasa for use on Folioz.
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